Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jan 2024)

Macacine alphaherpesvirus 1 (B Virus) Infection in Humans, Japan, 2019

  • Souichi Yamada,
  • Harutaka Katano,
  • Yuko Sato,
  • Tadaki Suzuki,
  • Akihiko Uda,
  • Keita Ishijima,
  • Motoi Suzuki,
  • Daigo Yamada,
  • Shizuko Harada,
  • Hitomi Kinoshita,
  • Phu Hoang Anh Nguyen,
  • Hideki Ebihara,
  • Ken Maeda,
  • Masayuki Saijo,
  • Shuetsu Fukushi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3001.230435
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 30, no. 1
pp. 177 – 179

Abstract

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Two human patients with Macacine alphaherpesvirus 1 infection were identified in Japan in 2019. Both patients had worked at the same company, which had a macaque facility. The rhesus-genotype B virus genome was detected in cerebrospinal fluid samples from both patients.

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